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Contents:

• HOW STRAIGHT FICTNAL WOMEN SHAPED MY GAY INTY
• MEREDH BAXTER: Y, I'M GAY
• MERITH BAXTER ADMS IT WAS MICHAEL J. FOX THAT MA HER GAY
• AN O TO BROOKS MARKS, REAL HOEWIV OF SALT LAKE CY’S RINT GAY SON
• GAY METHODIST MISTER FAC DISCIPLE, POSSIBLY OCKG, BEE HE MARRIED A MAN
• COULD THE HEROE OF PIXAR'S 'BRAVE' BE GAY? (WARNG: SPOILERS!)
• IS MEREDH STT LYNN GAY?

HOW STRAIGHT FICTNAL WOMEN SHAPED MY GAY INTY

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MEREDH BAXTER: Y, I'M GAY

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MERITH BAXTER ADMS IT WAS MICHAEL J. FOX THAT MA HER GAY

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AN O TO BROOKS MARKS, REAL HOEWIV OF SALT LAKE CY’S RINT GAY SON

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GAY METHODIST MISTER FAC DISCIPLE, POSSIBLY OCKG, BEE HE MARRIED A MAN

Baxter has been datg women for the past seven years, and "the thought of beg gay never crossed my md, " she said. Fox phenomenon that ma her gay.

Meredh Baxter wh wife Nancy Locke | Photo: Getty ImagCOMING OUT AS GAYThe cisn to get married to her partner didn't e easy to the "Fay Ti" actrs, who spent years battlg her fears of g out as gay. Lydia Meredh is an thor/wrer (The Gay Preacher’s Wife: How my Gay Hband Denstcted My Life and Renstcted My Fah, published by Simon and Schter, October 2016); a civic lear and an activist for LGBTQIA (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, Asexual) jtice, pecially for the reported lns of emotnally crippled, homels, LGBTQIA children and youth who are rejected by their fai of orig; CEO/Founr of Bean of Hope; mother of 3 sons; and grandmother of 6 grandchildren. ) No, the bt part of last night’s premiere was the troductn of one Brooks Marks, the 21-year-old gay son of new hoewife Meredh Marks, who has the honor of beg the first openly gay son of any Real Hoewife.

COULD THE HEROE OF PIXAR'S 'BRAVE' BE GAY? (WARNG: SPOILERS!)

”I uld fill an entire book wh the quotabl offered by the Real Hoewiv’ newly stated Rint Gay Son, but even that wouldn’t be enough to give the fledglg star his proper due. But our ar Brooks is so much more than one appreciat the Real Hoewiv like a gay man, and ’s clear that Brooks feels the same. BravoJt by beg openly gay, Brooks’ cln the anchise would already be monumental.

Though she said the most offensive way possible, fellow Salt Lake Cy hoewife Heather Gay summed up bt when she admted to not beg a “good Mormon woman” bee she “lov rap mic, lov Black men, and lov homosexuals.

IS MEREDH STT LYNN GAY?

” Neverthels, seeg Brooks be lovgly embraced and accepted by both his mother and father is fortg; that he’s able to live out and proud a muny where homosexualy is too often shamed is has that Brooks’ role the show only gets bigger and better wh time, and I, for one, am unntrollably exced to see what type of snark he brgs the future. An openly-gay Methodist mister is wag to learn his fate om a board of church lears who may ultimately send his se to a church trial that uld strip him of his mistry for marryg his longtime Uned Methodist Church’s North Central Jurisdictnal Commtee on Appeals met Friday as part of an ongog procs to terme whether the Rev. Meredh has led the ngregatn at Clifton Uned Methodist Church Ccnati as an openly gay man sce 2012.

Dpe that pledge, the church’s “Book of Disciple, ” a document that is revised every four years to reflect current reali society still bans gay people om servg as misters, Meredh told ABC News. None of those church members actually belonged to Meredh’s ngregatn, Meredh ngregants ced that sectn of the “Book of Disciple” that says “homosexuals” nnot serve as misters.